went to the most perfect and calming seaside today, despite everything

to my great surprise, we are left with some money for buying books for our team at the institute. Any recent recommendations in computational humanities, DH, poetics, verse studies, world lit / comparative lit? Let's go, internet! Self plugs are more than welcome.

A farewell card for #chr2025 people, safe travels everyone✨

my first chr, yay! #chr2025 Also realized that an ultra short talk preparation takes really a lot of time 😅

The first articles are out! Check out “Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment” by Ben Nagy @artjomshl.bsky.social Mirella De Sisto and Petr Plecháč. “All poetic forms come from somewhere. Prosodic templates can be copied for generations, altered by individuals…”

Btw, I created the Bluesky feed "CLS in DH/NLP". It collects posts containing the keywords: #CLS, #CCLS, #JCLS, #CCLS2025, CLS INFRA, Literary Computing, SPP-CLS, Computational Literary Studies, Cultural Analytics, Digital Literary Studies, etc. 👉 Feel free to like and share

✍️ Our paper is finally out! All poetic forms come from somewhere, but figuring out their relationships is hard. We use sequence alignment on scansion (010.10) to measure metrical similarity between poems. This allows us to detect related forms across languages and times 1/ tinyurl.com/metronome25

@plechac.bsky.social, Neža Kočnik and @artjomshl.bsky.social explaining how zodiac signs influence poetic style (they don't) -- at the best conference ever @plottingpoetry.bsky.social

A scholar possessing a singular vision and a frightening working resilience, he was hounded by Stalin repression machine, exiled, denied academic positions, firewood and food; his work was largely forgotten until 2000s. So we, who were influenced by him at the rise of DH, keep remembering.

Boris Yarkho, a Moscow formalist, was born today in 1889; his work of 1920-1930s fully anticipates computational literary studies: statistical methods used not for stylistics or attribution, but for questions of literary history and theory Read him, if you haven't www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

OVD-Info, a Russian human rights organisation, has issued the most comprehensive report on the persecutions of Russian teachers and university lecturers for their anti-war stance. It shows the scale of dissent and pressure in Russian educational sector. #AcademicSky ovd.info/en/teachers-...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪 🥼🔬 Longing for the day when funding is ample, jobs are steady, and autocorrect stops changing "Curie" to "cutie". #academicsky

seems like Google was able to find not only Elena Ferrante's stylistic fingerprint, but even *her* face

when I open terminal, I still automatically start as `cd Documents/thesis`... halp

Defended my PhD yesterday and got a German tax id today 🎓✨ what a week, huh?

a sudden murder happened on a book page (Charles Hartman in 1996 "Virtual Muse" talking about a scansion software he wrote in ~1980s (?) )

Congratulations to @joannaby.bsky.social for getting her PhD in multimodal stylometry 🥳🎉

Ćśśśśśś, zażółć gęślą jaźń 👹

Computational poetics archaeology: today I've read some of Geir Kjetsaa's articles on poetry data analysis made in 1970s using Fortran 🤖 Kjetsaa was a Norwegian slavist and he is known for his works on authorship attribution, but not comp poetics(?). Plot: sth like ttr for 3 poets, x=tokens, y=words

writing (thesis) acknowledgments is sth so bittersweet, i'm just sitting here thinking how lucky i am 😿

Halloween is a bit too long and too scary this year

an academic bar that misses its scholar... @rantyben.bsky.social

just spoke with a Czech lady over the phone: I don't know Czech, she doesn't speak English, cringe silence on the phone ... ended with my question być może mogłabym mówić po polsku w końcu ona powiedziała, że ok to była dobra rozmowa, "mějte se hezky a do widzenia" 🤪 god bless same language families

twitter's "for you" feed just showed me for no reason more than 10 posts from musk?? in a row lol like ok guys let's fckg go full authoritarian in algorithms

朋友在推特稱作推友 那在Bluesky要稱呼蝶友嗎… （半夜不睡在想這個）

been using Notion AI's "improve text" on my abstracts quite a lot and it was fine... but baby it just went wild as soon as it recognized that i was writing a cover letter 👹 feels bad thinking how much more cover letters it might have eaten in comparison with literary or well less-nonsense texts

i like the symmetry of this number heh

hello world 👾 so it's been >a year since the quote. firstly, i'm alive 🥲 secondly, now i have sth called final_draft_v2 on my computer ✨ bluesky now seems a bit less cosy but still a nice place to be, special thx for gifs

Did German Iambic Pentameters Written 200 Years Ago Cause Air Pollution in Maine?

Today is the birthday of Boris Yarkho (1889-1942) — a visionary literary scholar,a formalist, who was the most important precursor of the current computational turn. Exiled, denied positions and funds (and warmth and food) he continued counting things alone. Plot uses his data on Corneille’s drama

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mood for the day after any deadline

i was compiling everything i have for the phd report and realised that i digitised 4k unknown poems and wrote kinda 100 pages about them with tables, plots and stuff 🫠 do i feel less imposter? no. can i play on my nintendo till september? probably

publishing an article, got a letter: hi please revise the final pdf version of your article _no_latter_ then July_7 OR we'll publish it AS IT IS also this journal: published the ugly unrevised pdf on the 1st of July for no reason, no figures are included lol the journal is in esci wos blah blah

It's one of those days.

stop “networking” this place is strictly for losing jobs

Monday: you've just finished a draft and happily sent it to a co-author 🌈✨✨ Tuesday: this happened 👹

seriously tempted to join ppl posting about Zelda but 1) i don't have it, 2) what i have is a *thesis deadline approaching* kind of situation